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Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6:00pm
Did Someone Say Participate?
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
This event has been canceled due to illness.
Berlin-based architect and researcher Markus Miessen — editor of the 2006 anthology Did Someone Say Participate?: An Atlas of Spatial Practice and 2007's The Violence of Participation — presents this lecture related to the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City. [MORE]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 7:00pm
Burnham Smackdown!
Urban Habitat Chicago
7 panelists. 1 moderator. You be the judge.
Architecture journalist Lynn Becker moderates this fast-paced discussion featuring a band of urban experts who each take on one aspect of the 1909 Plan of Chicago by Burnham and Bennett, make it relevant and accessible by bringing it up-to-date, then offer real-world solutions on how it might be implemented.
Speakers: [MORE]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 7:00pm
The Plan of Chicago: A Regional Legacy
Glen Ellyn Public Library
This lively lecture by Chicago geographer and historian Dennis McClendon includes pictures of the Chicago that faced the planners a century ago, the grand visions they had for the city and what actually resulted from the Plan of Chicago. [MORE]
November 04, 2009
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Exhibits
Bennett’s Plan of Elgin
Water = Life
Be Like Burnham
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Connecting Industry:
South Shore Freight
In and After School
Burnham Plan History Fair Award
Burnham Plan Centennial Committee